San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-21
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OUR BROOKLYN LETTER.

From our Special Correspondent.
BROOKLYN, July 1.-THE change from
the sea shore to the city during this
heated term Ia most distressing, and
many gentlemen who are only able to
spend their Sundays In the country
think they feel better to stick it out in
town with the thermometer in the
ninetes than to change for so short
time. The carriages most in demand
are the little white hesrses, and plain
wagons which carry away little pine
boxes. If there had been any woman
on the Board OF Estimates and AppOr-
tiOnments, there would have been less
need OF these vehicles, Why is the
world so slow to recognize the fact that
women know what women and children
need? On! mothers, you who have
buried your children and know the
heartache of it all, you In the midst OF
comfort and Injuries, 10 not fail to use
your influence for the extension of the
sphere of your sex. The mother heart
in the tenent house is often as tender as
the mother heart In the palace,
and the need Of the one for the
Otuer is enough to make the angels
weep.
Mrs. Francis HOdgson Barnett has
been offered $4,000 to write grOwn-up
Lord FOntlerOy story. She does not be-
lieve she can do it TO order. The Little
Lord was work OF inrpiratiOn to a
great extent. Much OF the work was
doubtless drudgery, hard, steady, trying
labor, but the main idea and the main
Incidents came" as facts and nOVelsts
of high order are want 10 say.
Kate Field has been mentioned by
some of her converted MOrmOns as the
most desirable governor that Utah can
have when she becomes a state. Miss
Field was under the impression that Mr..
Cleveland made definite promise be-
fore his election to spend some time and
effort In putting stop to Brigham
1OuDglsm, and is now under the impress
sion that he hasn't kept his word. This
brilliant lady ought to know how much
easier il is to promise under such cir
cumstances than to perform later. Ii
Miss Field wants to be governor or any
other high cOckalOrum after the episode
of the battle flags, she has the spirit OF
the toughest OF FOX's martyrs.
Jay Gould thinks that "oongress had
better not NEEDLE with the business OF
the country" and congress thinks that
the country had better not NEEDLE with
it. Isn't funny? Then again, Mr..
Gould considers that his neuralgia is his
own private business, and Russell Sage
thinks 1t is pity that fellow can't
have pain without everybody know
ing it, just because he happens TO have
few millions. So ii is. What an in
estimable blessing is poverty. The poor
man can "grin and bear il" without the
slightest interference.
pathetic story is told of the mother
nf thFAn wi n a
off COnarsie by the carelessness of the
captain of the yacht Mystery. The re-
port is that she was strongly impressed
not to 60, in fact declared loudly, pulled
back, as II voice whispered, don't
&c" don't CO." but was over persuaded
by her friends, who called her fool and
so on. 1t doesn't seem as if ii ought to
require voice from another world to
restrain mother from taking family
OF children upon crowded sail boat in
the waters about New York. But there
is no more doubt that such warnings
are sometimes received than that many
other strange and incOmpreh ensible
things occur about u.s. And they GER
tainly should not be disregarded when
common sense and common prudence
point the same way.
70 the bright young girl who writes
to me So seriously about the trouble she
is having with her face, which she de-
scribes as "a mass of pimples," can
only reiterate what l have said times
without number. 1 know that arsenic
will make the complexion smooth. and
very, very white. | have seen 1t effect
upon those near and dear to me, and
nothing could exceed the waxen fairness
OF their compilations as they lay in their
collins. Battle carefully, girls; exercise
vigorously In the open air, and eat those
things which are not heating to the
blood, and that can be easily digested
and assimilsted. Pooling with drugs
recommended by quacks and amateurs
has been more potent than war in kill
ing of the human family. If you have
a good physician, go to him with your
ailments, and then do as he tells you.
But dent take arsenic, and don't play
with quinine in any shape whatever.
The argument used that arsenic is a
splendid tonic, and Immediately relieves
the "goneness" which tired and nervous
people experience at the pit of the stOm-
ach, may possibly be true, but II so, it Is
only "a temporary help, and kills even
while it relieves.
The Prince of Wales is said to be very
much annoyed by the American oriti-
cisms of James Russell Lowell. He de-
clares the Misunderstanding business which
has been so deliberately worked up ian
i'll natured exsggeratiOn OF very grace
full a nd gentemanly action"
ETFANOp KIpK